Ask lawmakers to act in Syria

Jane Sellars

Springfield

I am asking everyone to join me in contacting our representative and senators about the atrocities occurring in Syria.

We must carefully weigh the actions of the Syrian government and ask our elected officials to support repercussions against the use of chemical weapons. We must stand united against any tyrant who believes he has the right to harm his own people in this manner.

Our fathers and mothers finally stood up for the Jews throughout Europe more than 65 years ago, after it was almost too late. More recently, our government has stood up to monsters like Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

The United States must continue to stand for the right of humane treatment for all. By sitting back and allowing this congressional debate to be anything more than for justice and equal treatment of all peoples is the same as sitting blatantly by while the rights of some individuals are being usurped.

I have confidence that each of you reading this will rise above the political fray, demand pointed and deliberate questions to be answered by qualified individuals, and demand that our country show the families who lost loved ones in Syria, as well as those in political power in other countries, that the United States is and will always stand for the rights of the oppressed.

I am just one voice, but I hope all of you who agree with me will join me and voice your concerns to our elected officials in Washington, D.C.

As Rabbi Joachim Prinz, speaking just before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago, stated, "the most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence."

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Ask lawmakers to act in Syria

I am asking everyone to join me in contacting our representative and senators about the atrocities occurring in Syria.